{"id":3150,"date":"2021-08-09T15:36:39","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T15:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.com\/china-in-the-mirror-of-islam\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T12:20:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T12:20:32","slug":"china-in-the-mirror-of-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/china-in-the-mirror-of-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"China in the mirror of Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"et_pb_section_0 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_0 et_pb_row et_pb_gutters2 et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_0 et_pb_column et_pb_column_4_4 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_0 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h1><span style=\"color: #585f9e;\">CH<\/span>I<span style=\"color: #585f9e;\">NA I<\/span>N THE MI<span style=\"color: #585f9e;\">RROR<\/span> OF I<span style=\"color: #585f9e;\">SLA<\/span>M<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_divider_0 et_pb_divider et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_2  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_3  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_d4_element et_pb_section et_pb_section_4 et_pb_section_parallax et_pb_with_background  et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode et_section_regular et_block_section\" >\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"et_parallax_bg_wrap et-pb-parallax-wrapper\"><span\n\t\t\t\t\t\tclass=\"et_parallax_bg et_pb_parallax_css et_parallax_bg--et_pb_section_4\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\tstyle=\"background-image: url(https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/800-34.jpg);\"\n\t\t\t\t\t><\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t<\/div><div class=\"et_pb_section_1 et_pb_section et_section_regular et_block_section\"><div class=\"et_pb_row_1 et_pb_row et_pb_gutters2 et_block_row\"><div class=\"et_pb_column_1 et_pb_column et_pb_column_1_3 et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_1 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h1><span style=\"color: #585f9e;\">CH<\/span>I<span style=\"color: #585f9e;\">NA I<\/span>N THE MI<span style=\"color: #585f9e;\">RROR<\/span> OF I<span style=\"color: #585f9e;\">SLA<\/span>M<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_divider_1 et_pb_divider et_pb_space et_pb_divider_position_top et_pb_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_divider_internal\"><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_text_2 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module bbg\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>immersive and proactive travel<br \/>multimedia mediation<br \/>interactivity<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_text_3 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module et_pb_text_align_justified\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><p>In our project for the scenography of \"China in the Mirror of Islam\" at the Louvre Abu Dhabi, we seized the opportunity to make a fair and functional architecture a vector of knowledge. Within a space that visitors can appropriate, we sought to transcribe the essence and complexity of a travelogue: that of the long-standing exchanges between China and Islam, on the trade routes.<\/p>\n<p>The intention of the exhibition is pedagogical and didactic, without abandoning the desire to arouse the wonder of visitors through a careful selection of pieces. Our proposals intend to take advantage of the iconographic density and the diversity of this corpus, offered to contemplate to a spectator-visitor, by avoiding the pitfall of the decorative and the gratuity of the devices. The choices exposed hereafter are justified by a clear scenographic intention: to exceed the function of exhibition to form a \"visitor-actor\" of this spectacle, through its \"position(s)\". Thus, he can fully integrate the scientific and iconographic content<br \/>and iconographic content within a scenographic process that reproduces the dynamics of the relationship between China and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>We propose to create an uncluttered \"landscape-architecture\" presenting the story of a journey punctuated by encounters and crossroads, offering visitors of all ages the opportunity to become actors of their discovery. Thanks to the two themes of the exhibition, exchanges and circulations, we have defined two organizing concepts of our scenographic proposal, based on the historical and structural reality of the trade routes that supported these interactions between China and Islam: the stopover, offered by the central architecture, and the roads, represented by the space of peripheral projections. Like the Silk Roads, they sketch the framework of a journey that is thought of as a voyage between land and sea.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_text_4 et_pb_text et_pb_bg_layout_light et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_text_inner\"><h3>Contracting owner : FRANCE MUSEUMS<\/h3>\n<p>Date : 2020<br \/>\nProject management : Olivier Palatre Architectes<br \/>\nProgram : Scenography<br \/>\nSurface : 1500 m\u00b2<br \/>\nBudget : 450 000 \u20ac<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_video_0 et_pb_video et_pb_module et_block_module\"><div class=\"et_pb_video_box\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"La Chine au miroir de l&amp;apos;Islam\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Baj3dWZNwVQ?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"et_pb_column_2 et_pb_column et_pb_column_2_3 et-last-child et_block_column et_pb_css_mix_blend_mode_passthrough\"><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-scenography"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4869,"href":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/4869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olivierpalatre.360web.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}